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Mrs.Handy
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Off to the beach
DS 7/18/2010
Handy 2.0 Due Early August
2011/2012 Races
12/17/2011 Christmas Caper 10K
2/11/2012 Have a Heart 5K
3/17/2012 DC RNR Half Marathon
4/22/2012 10M Parkway Classic
10/28/2012 Marine Corps Marathon
Check-in?
Mrs.Handy
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I think it's been a while since we've done one of these (maybe I missed one, if so I apologize).
Tell me all about your LOs, cute bumps, crazy tantrums, etc.
Off to the beach
DS 7/18/2010
Handy 2.0 Due Early August
2011/2012 Races
12/17/2011 Christmas Caper 10K
2/11/2012 Have a Heart 5K
3/17/2012 DC RNR Half Marathon
4/22/2012 10M Parkway Classic
10/28/2012 Marine Corps Marathon
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Re: Check-in?
DS is getting so cute nowadays! He is such a fun little guy. His babbling is more conversational with a few words interspersed "uh oh", "good", (do animal noises count?). He will give running hugs if you open up your arms. He is always smiling and laughing. He has discovered balls and loves to throw them around. He loves the outdoors, which is a shame since it's getting cold.
His tantrums at meal time have gotten better and he has been eating more things. I'm still BF during the mornings/evenings and weekends. On the weekends, it's a little annoying because he wants to nurse all day even though there's not much there. He barely touches the sippy cups we give him with WCM in them.
Off to the beach
DS 7/18/2010
Handy 2.0 Due Early August
2011/2012 Races
12/17/2011 Christmas Caper 10K
2/11/2012 Have a Heart 5K
3/17/2012 DC RNR Half Marathon
4/22/2012 10M Parkway Classic
10/28/2012 Marine Corps Marathon
I am going to whine for a sec: it isn't fair to be sick, pregnant, and have a sick toddler....
Okay other than that we are doing really well. DS is learning new words everyday and putting more words together. We still have our terrible 2 moments, but I do think it is gettting better now that the doors of communication have opened!
DS2 is growing like a weed, and I can't wait to meet him. I have a feeling the next month or so will go by fast.
LO is 10 months and a few days, and he is becoming quite a fiercely independent little man. He is an accomplished crawler, and stander-upper, and occasionally cruises around tables. He has a walking toy (https://www.amazon.com/VTech-80-077001-Vtech-Sit-to-Stand-Learning/dp/B0053X62GK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321541107&sr=8-1) that he loves to stand up behind and push, and occasionally he will take steps behind it. He's maxed out at 4 steps, though, and he usually falls down onto his knees rather than step.
Last night he crawled up the whole flight of stairs between our dining room and main level (we live in a split level, so that was about 6 steps). He was so proud at the top!
His favorite thing to do is to pet our cat, who is wonderfully patient with him. When she walks into a room that LO is in, he lights up, laughs and reaches for her. And if he's on the floor, he'll make a beeline in the cat's direction.
He says mamama all the time, and I always clap and laugh and say "that's right, I'm mama." I have noticed that he will say it pretty quickly when I come into a room, so I think he is starting to figure it out.
Food is a challenge, though. He hates being spoon fed, and fusses and cries after 2 or 3 bites. So we give him finger foods, but I'm not sure how much he is actually ingesting, as it all seems to end up in the bib pocket. He's still on his growth curve, but he is so small :-(
And his teeth! OMG, his teeth. He is the worst teether ever, and just got his two top teeth a few days ago. Now the next top teeth are coming in, although I don't see the second set of bottom teeth yet. We are still bfing, and when he's snoozy or being lazy, he'll bite and it hurts like crazy.
I'm at that "I'm so freakin tired" stage to put a lot of thought into this.
DS is learning so much everyday. His new words are "thank you" and he loves to help you unload the dishwasher. I'm really enjoying this stage with him. He loves reading books. Its really fun to watch him make up the words, turn pages and be so animated. He has my hips - as in he loves to dance. Loves to shake his booty. It cracks me up, especially when he's in the tub dancing around to his bubble machine. He also loves to be outside so actually getting him in the house after daycare is actually a chore. Even harder now that its getting dark. He just wants to play. He doesn't care how dark it is outside. Last night just proved it when he mistakenly thought my white pumpkin was his ball and tried to pick it up and kick it.
"Rocky" is apparently doing well. I have my first OB appt Dec 6th. I'm already preparing for the gestational diabetes diet and I'm ready for all this bloat to go away. I feel like I'm 6 months pregnant with this belly poking out. We're remaining team green with this one so ya'll will just have to hold out until next June!
Thats all... I'm overly worried about the current bedroom situation in the house. We have 2 bedrooms upstairs and 1 downstairs so I'll be moving DS to the bigger bedroom downstairs and leaving the nursery a nursey for #2.
Tooth #15 is coming in right now, and I'm guessing #16 is right behind it, because they usually come in pairs. Soon he'll have all of his teeth except for his second molars. The kid is a teething machine!
He's still a very picky eater, but we're trying to offer him new foods several times a week. He throws most of them on the floor, but occasionally he will try something new. His favorite food is pizza. I can't really blame him for that one.
He's gotten much better with our dog. He still gives her more "love" than she prefers, but now he's good about touching her gently and not pulling her hair. He also tries to hug her now, which she doesn't really appreciate, but at least he's not hurting her.
Two is proving as challenging as expected. In an effort to improve our worsening morning dramas, we're getting DD up a little earlier to give her time to ease into getting dressed a little slower. It's kind of working, but also involves a lot of food considering she gets a full breakfast at daycare. I can definitely see some defiance over not getting her way, and I'm hoping she starts to internalize the concept of if/then sometime soon (as in - if you let us put on your pants and socks, you can have two more goldfish...but no pants = no fish).
I was so excited last night that she finally let me put some Vaseline on her nose. (It's really the little things.) She's had a stuffy nose for weeks (and the crustiness to go with it), and is aware that it hurts, but stubbornly wouldn't let me try to help her fix it.
On the amusing side, we're starting to get some interesting outfits when she gets to pick for herself. No concept of weather-appropriate or matching colors - white sandals that don't fit, red socks, pink and white polka dot shorts, dark leggings (at my insistence - it was too cold for shorts- with multicolor asterisks, and a peach hoodie. I'm having fun photographing her combinations.
Doing well here:) Ben is a total toddler - moving all around and trying to get into everything;) For a while he was trying to climb our safety gates (and I thought I was so smart to get ones that require weight to open - thought they were totally child proofed - never imagined the climbing thing;) ). I think we are making progress on that front though.
We are ttc our second - but right now we are in what I consider the "prove to our health insurance we didn't suddenly become fertile" stage - but it really is so much easier this time around. Already having Ben really takes the sting out of not being pregnant. And I know deep down that if he is the only one I ever have, I will be ok - more than ok - truly blessed.
Like WinesNotWhines we get the big hugs - and there is nothing like it! I also love that when we are out sometimes moms will come up to me and confide that their teenage boy still gives them hugs - I hope they do continue!
We're still (!) having a tough time making the transition from DST. J's DCP said it can taken them up to 30 days for their circadian rhythms to get back on track, so we're trying to roll with it. I think the main issue is that we didn't really make any adjustments to his bedtime right after the time change (ie getting him to bed earlier and then slowly pushing his bedtime back so he could adjust). J has been waking up at 5:30 (which is the same as his "regular" 6:30 wake up time before the time changed) but is falling asleep at 7:30, so he's only getting 10 hours of sleep at night and not always napping well at daycare.
He has been super cranky, with lots of meltdowns, refusals to eat, and even had to be pulled out of his class yesterday for some quiet time because he just couldn't handle it. I feel so bad. We're trying to be good-humored about it and not take it personally when he snaps.
Otherwise . . . things are good. He's been using the potty more (we got an insert, he didn't really like the chair). He's SUPER into trains, and loves to lay in his crib in the morning and read train books. He knows all his colors now, and a lot of letters. He's getting more into music and can sing a few songs (up until recently it was all "Happy Birthday," all the time). He can also be really sweet, too--anytime lately we tell him one of us is hurt, he'll come over and kiss it better. If we could just get past this sleep hump we'd be golden.
TTC #2: BFP 12/17/11, m/c 1/7/12 and D&C 1/12/12
baby blog/cooking blog
I was out with my LO and a mom of a big, hulking, grumpy teenage boy came up to me and cooed over LO. I said something about loving his age because of the snuggles and she whispered to me that her big hulking grumpy teenager still liked to cuddle with her sometimes. It was really sweet!
We're doing really well. The LOs are up to so much everyday. They both just started walking this past week, although Piper is the only one that realizes it's a good form of transportation. Fletch just thinks it's a neat trick to make Mommy and Daddy go crazy. Neither of them have any real words beyonds, but Piper babbles a lot and I think she's saying things we can't understand. Fletch imitates a lot and tries to say words. I'm starting to get a little worried, so I'm going to bring it up at their 15-month appt in a few weeks.
Other things they are doing:
-Piper loves to share things with you. When she?s eating, she?ll hold a bite of food out for you to eat and giggles when you eat it out of her hand. She also loves to play games. Sometimes when she?s sharing her food, she?ll pull her hand away as you go for the food and then cracks up laughing after she?s tricked you.
--Fletch loves to give kisses. If I call him from across the room and ask for kisses, he scurries over and plants big fat, wet smooches all over my face.
--They both love to ?read? their books and or be read to, and there are a few books that I'm going to go crazy if I read one more time. I try other books, but they specifically like a few specific ones.
--Fletch can point to his head when asked. He also responds correctly when you ask him what noise a cow makes, and occasionally when asked what noise a sheep makes.
--They both just got their second haircut. Their hair grows so fast.
--Both of them love to eat and, so far, are only occasionally picky. Last night, Fletch preferred to eat only broccoli over the quesidillas I made, which Piper scarfed down.
They are getting more fun everyday!
DD#1 continues to grow in her vocabulary and skills. She is saying please and thank you more and using manners more which I am pleased with since we've been working on this for months. The other day, she was playing with her kitchen and gave some of her play food to DH on a plate. As she was walking away, she turned around to DH and said, "Saaay thank you!" in a motherly tone. Her latest thing is that before bed, she wants to turn on music, put on a ballerina costume I got at a yard sale and do "ballet". I have no idea where she picked this up but her zest and joy for life is contagious. She also continues to be a wonderful big sister to DD#2. When DD#2 is crying, she goes up to her and says "what's the matter?" and tries to console her. It's so sweet.
We call DD#2 our pterodactyl. When she wants you attention, she makes these scretching sounds until you come get her and then she gives you a big old grin. She is very physically aggressive and is really trying to get up on her hands and knees and scoot around on the floor. I can already see some major differences between her and DD#1. DD#1 didn't walk until 17 months because she was just so laid back and it wasn't worth the effort. On the otherhand, DD#2 is very physically aggressive and I am guessing she'll be an early walker.
I did my first 4 hour road trip with both girls on my own and it went pretty well. They were both great in the car and I'm glad I did it because it gives me confidence that I can take them more places on my own.
We met with the pedi regarding our concerns about DS, and she recommended that we start with Child Find b/c it's free and many insurance companies don't cover special needs assessments and therapies. I'm still waiting for a call back from them to even make an appointment (calling again today) so it seems like it might be just the beginning of a long frustrating process. I'm worried that they'll want to do his screening at home and know that they won't really find much (not that I'm rooting for something to be wrong with him, but I'd like an accurate assessment) because he seems normal to most adults. It's in non-structured settings around other children that he has the most trouble with.
As far as things with DS go, it's off and on. We're currently sliding back into an avoidance and ignoring phase as far as social situations go. He had made progress with trying to play with other kids and remembering that he has to be a boy in public instead of a train, but it seems like we're back to where we started. Refusing to even attempt playing with others, avoiding them when they try to play with him, and unconsciously making train or car engine noises everywhere we go. Tantrums are ramping up again, probably b/c we haven't been able to get out and burn energy as much, and we've started to have to do restrained calm down periods again. Those really suck, b/c he's so much bigger now. He can actually kind of hurt us now. Back when he was under two, it was a little more manageable. Some good points are that he's becoming more independent in general though. He now insists on getting himself breakfast and making his own lunch, so I've rearranged the pantry to allow that. He gets himself dressed every morning as well. He still loves school and spends a lot of his playtime at home (when he's not pretending to be that stupid train, ugh) acting out everything that his teacher did in class for the day.
DD has had kind of a hellish two weeks, sleep wise. She finally cut her first tooth the day before her birthday and has been working on the second one ever since. She is up at least 4x a night screaming and writhing. She has stopped with the new words for a while, but is working on walking a bit more. She can now stand independently for about 3-5 seconds, but won't let go on her own. I still think it will be at least Christmas before she's taking her first steps.
C had his first round of antibiotics last week, due to a festering mucousy cough that was not going away on its own. He's much better now.
He is full on crawling, and can spot and tries to eat any tiny fleck of dirt/dust/lint/pebble/leaf/food on the floor. So I'm busy vaccuuming. He loves any toy that plays music, and it's even better if he can push something to start the music. Among his current favorites are this, this and this.
He's also starting to mimic some words. The other day, I said "Yuck!" at something, and he looked at me and said "uk!" which was super cute. He also mimics "Uh Oh!" and says "ieee" whenever one of his toys says "bye bye!"
I can hardly believe that he's almost 10 months.
It's been a while since I have participated in one of these...here it goes.
DS is so much fun right now, he is so sweet and loving. He gives big hugs to us all the time and he'll sometimes pull back from the hug to give a kiss and he makes a big muah sound. He is really starting to add new words everyday and sharpening the pronounciation of his current words. He gets super excited on our car rides to and from daycare when he sees buses and big trucks on the road and will shout out "bus, Momma, bus" and will keep saying that over and over until I acknowledge and sometimes we sing Wheels on the Bus for a few verses. He is too funny. He is really into Old MacDonald, especially the eieio parts. Sometimes he starts singing just the eieios to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle.
The time change sort of threw us, we are still having a hard time getting him to go to bed around 7:30-8pm, but we are at least making progress on getting him to sleep until 7am or later. We are traveling this weekend and we will be on central time so I don't really see that helping any with our routine, so we'll see what happens when we get back from that.
DS will eat just about anything, but he absolutely loves Yo Baby Yogurt. If he won't eat anything else he will eat that, any flavor. That is his treat after he eats his dinner and he gets so excited and asks so sweetly for it, "yo-gut please Mamma?".
My downer for this update is that I found out yesterday that I am having a miscarrage. I was supposed to be 7wks and everything stopped growing about a week ago. I was being monitored closely due to my numbers being a little bit off (low & rising slower than they like to see) and I was measuring behind, but I had chalked that up to my cycles have never been "normal" and I thought I ovulated later than what comes up on their little wheel thing. I had a sono last week and there was a hearbeat and I thought there was hope, but at this weeks sono all of that was dashed out. I am just so sad right now. I am scheduled for a d&c early next week if nothing happens on its own before then, but I have had no other signs leading up to this. I haven't had a history for this so this is all new to me and I am still processing it all. If you made it this far in my rambley update, thanks for "listening".
DS continues to be the light of our lives....I love that I am able to stay home with him and spend so much time with him...that being said, the fact he has a true personality sometimes drives me nuts recently...:-)
his vocabulary has exploded and has many 3 word phrases which is awesome. He turns 2 at the end of december, I can't believe how fast it is going....we are on our 2nd cycle of ttc after the m/c so I'm hoping to have good news to share soon but am trying not to stress about it.....trying being the key word! Hope everyone has a great thanksgiving!!!
I love reading these, here is a brief update, I'll edit later if I have the time. DD is 32 months and alternatively so very sweet and a terror. Bedtime has become really rocky the last month or so and I was hop ind DST ending would help, but alas DD just does not want to go to sleep, no matter how tired she is. She is getting to be so knowledgeable, learning her letters and numbers. It's amazing to see how quickly she learns things and grasps concepts.
DS is 10 months and a little doll still. He is definitely a man on a mission (go, go, go) and is this close to walking. He can get himself to standing unsupported, has been cruising for months and can walk holding your fingers or a toy for as long as you are willing to help him along. He just graduated from physical therapy for minor torticollis. I was kind of sad, I loved his appointments, I learned so much about child development. It was fascinating. We're going to Ferberize DS for nighttime feedings soon. I'm alternatively excited about sleeping through the night an dreading the week of sleeplessness that we will likely endure first. I don't want to end on a bad note, so let me just reiterate what a delight he is.
I'm so sorry, same thing happened to me in early september. I did go ahead with the D&C...my thoughts are with you and your DH.....
goteami6 - I'm so sorry to hear about your m/c. I m/c my first pregnancy at 9 weeks and I was, of course, devastated. My thoughts and prayers go out to you.
As for my DD, she is just so adorable. I love this age. She's shown no signs of wanting to crawl even though the two other babies her age at DC are crawling all around her. She just loves sitting and playing with her toys. Also, DCP confessed that she carries her around a lot (she's pretty snuggly) so that could be why. She knows someone will pick her up and take her somewhere eventually so why bother? She's learned to clap with her hands open and LOVES all food, especially finger foods. She can pick up puffs, broccoli and sometimes grapes. It was a challenge getting her to go back to purees but now we do it in tandem with the finger foods, so she's happy.
She's been a great sleeper since we did Ferber about a month or so ago. She's sleeping 12 hours a night and I can't remember the last time she woke up in the middle of the night, so I'm super lucky. She loves going into her crib now, after a few weeks of all out screaming whenever I put her down. I don't know what changed but she babbles to herself for at least 10 minutes so maybe she's figured out that's a better way to unwind than screaming. She loves to dance and giggles hysterically whenever we dance with her. It just melts my heart!
I'm so sorry, you're in my thoughts and prayers.
Ditto. I was really praying and wishing for a good outcome in your situation.
I'm very sorry to hear of the m/c's on our board recently. I was there with my first pg and it sucks bigtime. It takes some of the joy out of future pregnancies
DS is doing great. He's just over 25 months now and he's doing amazingly well with potty training. He wears underwear full time (including naps) but NOT overnight. DH braved 2 nights of DS wearing underwear overnight when I was OOT and woke up to a not pretty picture. So we shelved overnight training for now!
We had some sleep regression recently (sleeping only 9/10 hours a night) but knock on wood, he seems to be doing a lot better this week - going to bed closer to 8 and waking up closer to 7). Thank goodness.
He speaks in mostly full sentences, though most of them start with "Liam" instead of "I" which is cute still, but we're trying to get him to understand pronouns.
For anyone who might be wondering, we achieved success with the "3 day Potty Training" method. It's difficult but if you follow it to a T, it should go well. We're just wondering when DS will start communicating more effectively when he needs to go to the bathroom rather than us just taking him regularly or picking up on visual cues. He's usually good about telling us he needs to poop but peeing is a whole different issue. Regardless, he does wait to pee until he's at the toilet, so that is positive....
goteam, I am so sorry for your loss!
dogglvr, good luck TTC!
UseronFire, everything I read says you cannot PT for night time; you have to wait until the bladder is bigger and the body matures enough for the bladder to send an "I am full signal" to the brain and then the brain to be mature enough to wake up the child; and some kids are very heavy sleepers. From what I understand, wearing pull-ups at night at 4 and even older is pretty normal!
DD is in pre-school and loves it, she loves to ask "why" questions and asks me to spell words (her faves are "kaka," "pee," and "fart" LOL what can I say, she's 3!). She must know everything that's going on and is very involved, if I say "no, DS, don't do that!," she'll ask "what did he do, Mommy?" and when I explain, for example that he threw his food to the dogs, she will remind me that she did not do that LOL
I am planning to try a dance class with her to see if she'd like that, now that swimming, thankfully (big fat FAIL) is over.
DS is talking more and he has the best laugh! He's still mostly a good eater except for when he decides that arff (the dogs) need his food, which really frustrates me and I need to work on ignoring it. He also loves music, will ask us to turn on the Cd player and as we wait for the 1st song to start playing, he's already swaying to the music that's yet to come out of the speakers, he's a sweetie!
Looks like I'll be missing the cookie GTG (sob sob) as we hve to go OOT to visit DH's family. 5+ hrs plus stops each way, I am sooooo not looking FWD to it.
DS is really getting into reading lately and has a longer attention span for hearing stories and "reading" them back to us. He likes letters, numbers and nursery rhymes. We have impressive tantrums triggered by any transition, especially in the evening (daycare pickup, dinner, bedtime). I think being indoors in the evenings takes its toll on him.
He is oblivious to the fact that he'll be getting a little brother in the spring although we do talk to him about it. He's such a little love, my sweet babe.
I love these check-ins! You ladies give me things to look to in the future - whether forward to it or not ;-)
Goteam, I am so sorry for your loss - there are no words... Having gone through it, all i can say is to take good care of yourself in the meantime. You are definitely in my thoughts.
Over here, we've tackled our first half-days of daycare. The girl has handled them fairly well - she's drinking from the bottle well and she charms the DCP with her smiles and laughs. However... (there has to be a however ;-) she is NOT sleeping there. She is beyond fried when i pick her up and both times has slept non-stop when she gets home. Tuesday, she's doing her first full day and i'm really concerned how she's going to deal with it - the following week, she's in daycare full time (five days a week) - the poor kid is going to be fired and i'm worried that the happy, smiley kid i have is going to disappear under a tired, cranky kid.
Otherwise, she's growing a mile a minute and is a delight. She reaches for things, tracks people with her head and eyes, smiles, laughs and dances with joy when she sees certain toys. I'm in love ;-)
DD is so fun right now. She literally started walking overnight. On Monday morning I was telling our nanny that she was still pretty hesitant to walk and would take a few steps but then crawl, and she stood up and walked across the room. Now she's walking everywhere.
And, selfishly, she's really into ma ma right now, which I love. She was definitely a daddy's girl for a long time, but now she gets so excited when she sees me and says "ma ma ma ma."
goteam6--I am so sorry for your loss.
DS turned 3 last week, and a bad attitude adjustment seems to be his b-day present to me. I am guessing it has more to do with DST (he's still waking up at 5 am) but his temper is awfully short these days. Other than that, he's doing well. He is taking Spanish classes once a week at school and I'm having a terrible time figuring out what he's trying to say (because I don't know much, but I do know that Marco and Nicholas are not days of the week in Spanish).
DD is 16 months old and is such a happy little kid. Her favorite thing is books, and she loves to read along. She surprised me this week by asking for a couple of books by name. Her vocabulary is growing like crazy.
Goteam -- I'm sorry to hear that. I'm also new on here but for what it's worth, if you need someone to talk to, I'm around. I lost my first pregnancy in June -- I was 11 weeks measuring 7 weeks, no heartbeat, when I went in for my first ultrasound. I know it's brutal. I'm really sorry.
As for me, I'm new around here because I'm pregnant again -- due July 3rd. I'm hoping this one will be my firstborn!
July 3rd, 2012 ~ Hang in there sweetheart, we can't wait to meet you!